Since Lee and his brother Terry won the Top Producer of the Year award in 2014, the operation has drastically transformed. Both brothers got married and started their own families. Three little girls are set to take over the farm someday.

Bring on the change. In agriculture’s climate of constant flux, convention can be costly. Spotting and dealing with change before it charges through the gate is a high-wire act and part of farming survival.

Scott Bros. Dairy in Southern California is an operation of 1,100 milking Holsteins on a 900 acre ranch. The operation is one of the few remaining family-owned operations which supplies its own creamery down the road in Chino.